Sue Larkey Podcast - Autism (ASD), ADHD, ODD and PDA education

Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference. Expert Guest: Professor Josephine Barbaro is a Principal Research Fellow and Neurodiversity Affirming Psychologist at the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, La Trobe University. She is co-founder of Australia's first 'Early Assessment Clinic' for autism, focusing on children under 3 years old. A/Prof Barbaro's research interests are in the early identification and diagnosis of autism in infants, toddlers, and pre-schoolers, family health and well-being following a diagnosis, and Neurodiversity Affirming research and practice. In this interview we will talk about: ✅ What is autism screening/developmental surveillance? ✅ What are some of the early signs of Autism? ✅ How early can we identify and diagnose Autistic kiddos and what's the current average age of diagnosis? ✅ The tools Professor Babaro's developed – SACS (for professionals), ASDetect (for parents), how accurate they are, where they're being used, and how people can access them. ✅ What to do if you suspect a child is Autistic? ✅ How to talk to parents in an affirming and empathic way if you suspect their child might be showing early signs? ✅ What to do if Doctors dismiss parental/carer concerns and say things like, 'They are just being a boy' or 'they will grow out of it?' Read more about this podcast in the show notes found via the link below suelarkey.com.au/new-tools-for-diagnosis-with-professor-barbaro/ Join the Facebook group specifically for this podcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/suelarkeypodcastcommunity/ Follow my Instagram account for regular tips https://www.instagram.com/sue.larkey/ To learn more about teaching or understanding ASD, please visit my website below. https://elearning.suelarkey.com.au

Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference. Expert Guest: Dr. Perry LaRoque is the founder and president of Mansfield Hall, an innovative residential college support program for diverse learners. He earned his doctorate in special education from the University of Wisconsin and has served in a variety of leadership roles serving at-risk youth and people with disabilities. Before returning for his doctoral work, Dr. LaRoque worked in an assisted-living care facility for adults with intellectual disabilities and taught special education in several public schools. For more information on Dr. Perry, please visit: https://perrylaroque.com/ In this interview, Dr. Perry LaRoque will talk about: ✅ The "tsunami" of students entering college with disabilities in the years to come and what can be done to prepare for this. ✅ How colleges and universities meet the needs of diverse learners. ✅ The need to view disability as diversity – institutions have made great strides in recognising the need for diversity, but the one area they still have not truly recognised are those will disabilities. ✅ To what extent do colleges and universities need to make adjustments? ✅ How students with disabilities can receive an extra level of support, when there's not a lot of funding for this. ✅ Strategies students can use to make the college/university system work for them – these students often come from a structured support system in high school, but they will find that level of support is not there in college — how can they embrace the concept of hidden rules? ✅ Preparing for Post School Options, whether University or Work. Read more about this podcast in the show notes found via the link below suelarkey.com.au/preparing-for-post-school-dr-perry-laroque/ Join the Facebook group specifically for this podcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/suelarkeypodcastcommunity/ Follow my Instagram account for regular tips https://www.instagram.com/sue.larkey/ To learn more about teaching or understanding ASD, please visit my website below. https://elearning.suelarkey.com.au

Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference. ✅ Why Mark calls it 'Toilet Learning' Not 'Toilet Training' ✅ How Mark got his son to do 'wee' in the toilet ✅ Sue offers some suggestions to Mark's question: 'What to do for his son who will hold in a poo for over a day, which will become an accident in his undies; he simply won't sit on the toilet to poo.' Read more about this podcast in the show notes found via the link below https://suelarkey.com.au/toilet-training-expert-series/ Join the Facebook group specifically for this podcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/suelarkeypodcastcommunity/ Follow my Instagram account for regular tips https://www.instagram.com/sue.larkey/ To learn more about teaching or understanding ASD, please visit my website below. https://elearning.suelarkey.com.au

Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference. Expert Guest: Dr. Russell Kennedy is a medical doctor and neuroscientist with deep roots in developmental psychology. His award winning book ANXIETY RX is the #1 rated book on Amazon on the topic of healing anxiety. Dr. Kennedy is no stranger to anxiety himself as he suffered from chronic worry and health anxiety for decades. After 30+ years of depending on doctors, psychiatrists, and counsellors and medications of all kinds with no relief, he decided that if was to heal, he must find the solution himself. ✅ How understanding anxiety can help you support students ✅ A different way to look at anxiety ✅ Ideas to support students with anxiety ✅ Strategies you can use too when you are feeling anxiety Read more about this podcast in the show notes found via the link below https://suelarkey.com.au/helping-to-heal-anxiety-with-bestselling-author-dr-russ/ Join the Facebook group specifically for this podcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/suelarkeypodcastcommunity/ Follow my Instagram account for regular tips https://www.instagram.com/sue.larkey/ To learn more about teaching or understanding ASD, please visit my website below. https://elearning.suelarkey.com.au

Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference. Buy the latest version of The Red Beast here. ✅ It is more inclusive – The original book was written for children with Asperger Syndrome, the new addition aims to reach most children on the Autism Spectrum. ✅ The new illustrations are more inclusive of typical children – so the child has a chance to see the behaviour of the angry boy in the playground from the perspective of their peers. ✅ Character names have been changed to be gender neutral and therefore more inclusive; so it's now Danni & Charlie instead of Rufus and John. ✅ It has taken into account pupil's perspectives. After going into schools, Kay learnt that many children disliked the picture of the Red Beast being caught in a net as it made the adults seems aggressive and uncaring. This has now been updated so the teachers are using gentle handling instead . Read more about this podcast in the show notes found via the link below https://suelarkey.com.au/updating-the-red-beast/ Join the Facebook group specifically for this podcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/suelarkeypodcastcommunity/ Follow my Instagram account for regular tips https://www.instagram.com/sue.larkey/ To learn more about teaching or understanding ASD, please visit my website below. https://elearning.suelarkey.com.au

Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference. Page numbers refer to the Holiday Newsletter – download it HERE (no sign up required) ✅ Sharing Diagnosis – Why, When and How to tell my Child (pages 8-9) ✅ Promoting Understanding (page 5) ✅ Using Picture Books to Educate the Whole Family (pages 6-7) ✅ Holiday Reading by Autistic Authors (pages 10-11) Read more about this podcast in the show notes found via the link below https://suelarkey.com.au/embrace-neurodiversity-this-summer/ Join the Facebook group specifically for this podcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/suelarkeypodcastcommunity/ Follow my Instagram account for regular tips https://www.instagram.com/sue.larkey/ To learn more about teaching or understanding ASD, please visit my website below. https://elearning.suelarkey.com.au

Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference. ✅ 14 tips for Christmas / Holiday Season ✅ Promoting Understanding ✅ Using Picture Books to Educate the Whole Family ✅ Sharing Diagnosis – Why, When and How to tell my Child ✅ Holiday Reading ✅ Using Cooking to Teach – Teaching Diversity through Food ✅ 6 Key Strategies for Creating a Calming Area at School and Home ✅ 12 Essential Tips for Concerts and End of Year Celebrations ✅ Stocking Filler Ideas ✅ Give the Gift of Visual Time – Using Timers to Minimise Stress Read more about this podcast in the show notes found via the link below https://suelarkey.com.au/give-the-gift-of-understanding-this-year/ Join the Facebook group specifically for this podcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/suelarkeypodcastcommunity/ Follow my Instagram account for regular tips https://www.instagram.com/sue.larkey/ To learn more about teaching or understanding ASD, please visit my website below. https://elearning.suelarkey.com.au

Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference. ✅ It's important to remember that a teacher's role isn't to offer suggestions of a diagnosis, it's to bring things to the parents' attention. ✅ 8 Steps to Talking for Families about pursuing a diagnosis. ✅ Red Flags for Diagnosis. ✅ Why students should get a diagnosis. Read more about this podcast in the show notes found via the link below https://suelarkey.com.au/how-to-talk-to-families-about-getting-a-diagnosis/ Join the Facebook group specifically for this podcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/suelarkeypodcastcommunity/ Follow my Instagram account for regular tips https://www.instagram.com/sue.larkey/ To learn more about teaching or understanding ASD, please visit my website below. https://elearning.suelarkey.com.au

Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference. Everything you need to know about Transition Including Top Tips for Preparing for 2023 What this Webinar Covers: ✅ Transition Tips including – Preschool – Primary School, Primary to Secondary & more ✅ What to do if you can't do on-site visits ✅ Giving children preventative breaks for toilet, food, drink and movement (Interoception) ✅ The KEY strategies for Teachers, Teacher Assistants, Families & More ✅ Sensory challenges to be aware of when returning to school from Learning at Home / Starting in a new classroom 2023 Read more about this podcast in the show notes found via the link below https://suelarkey.com.au/replay-transition-2023/ Join the Facebook group specifically for this podcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/suelarkeypodcastcommunity/ Follow my Instagram account for regular tips https://www.instagram.com/sue.larkey/ To learn more about teaching or understanding ASD, please visit my website below. https://elearning.suelarkey.com.au

Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference. It's starting to get to the end of 2022, and you might already be starting to think about how you will ease the transition for the children you know. Or if you are just coming out of learning from home and moving to in-person teaching, these transition tips will help reduce anxiety and stress! Transition can be big or small changes: it includes change in teacher, change in room, change in students in the class not just starting preschool, school, high school and beyond. The nature of autism is such that transition can be extremely stressful, no matter what age or how BIG or SMALL the change maybe. Changing Teacher is like…. Moving to a Foreign Country For children with autism, moving to a new teacher, classroom or campus is like moving to foreign country. There is a different language (e.g. old teacher says 'pack away', new teacher says 'clean up'). Teachers and other students have different facial expressions and body language to interpret, new rules, new schedules, new smells, different pencils, just to mention a few changes. This new 'foreign country' causes the child to feel enormous anxiety and stress, which in turn can lead to behaviour. This anxiety and behaviour can be managed by effective planning and transition strategies. Read more about this podcast in the show notes found via the link below https://suelarkey.com.au/cheat-sheets-for-transition-2022/ Join the Facebook group specifically for this podcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/suelarkeypodcastcommunity/ Follow my Instagram account for regular tips https://www.instagram.com/sue.larkey/ To learn more about teaching or understanding ASD, please visit my website below. https://elearning.suelarkey.com.au